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May 21, 2013

German energy shift faces headwinds
Pulheim, Germany (AFP) May 19, 2013
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so long ago. It is also prone to solar turbulence and other unexpected flare-ups. The technicians work at a monitoring centre of the electricity company Amprion - one of the many nerve centres of Germany's ambitious transition from nuclear to renewable energies ... read more

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